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Table 5 Relative MFV in the MCA during SOC and WCST in patients, separately presented for hemisphere/diagnostic grouping and gender

From: Association between two distinct executive tasks in schizophrenia: a functional transcranial Doppler sonography study

SOC

side

men

women

mean diff.

95% CI

df

t-value

Planning

       

   easy

Left

1.0198 (0.0402)

1.0283 (0.0456)

-0.0085

-0.0492 – 0.0322

19

0.44

   difficult

MCA

1.0128 (0.0367)

1.0139 (0.0435)

-0.0011

-0.0389 – 0.0366

19

0.06

Planning

       

   easy

Right

1.0158 (0.0396)

1.0415 (0.0426)

-0.0257

-0.0650 – 0.0136

19

1.37

   difficult

MCA

1.0104 (0.0337)

1.0226 (0.0506)

-0.0122

-0.0508 – 0.0264

19

0.66

Mov. exe.

       

   easy

Left

1.0747 (0.0544)

1.0855 (0.0470)

-0.0108

-0.0614 – 0.0397

19

0.45

   difficult

MCA

1.0438 (0.0482)

1.0850 (0.0435)

-0.0413

-0.0866 – 0.0040

19

1.91

Mov. exe.

       

   easy

Right

1.0692 (0.0524)

1.0870 (0.0339)

-0.0177

-0.0636 – 0.0282

19

0.81

   difficult

MCA

1.0398 (0.0623)

1.0847 (0.0474)

-0.0449

-0.1012 – 0.0113

19

1.67

WCST

side

men

women

mean diff.

95% CI

df

t-value

steady-state

Left MCA

1.0559 (0.0381)

1.0868 (0.0572)

-0.0308

-0.0745 – 0.0128

19

1.48

steady-state

Right MCA

1.0388 (0.0489)

1.0889 (0.0495)

-0.0501

-0.0976 – -0.0026

19

2.20*

  1. values are mean (SD)
  2. *P = 0.04, all other p-values >0.07
  3. Abbreviations: CI: confidence interval; MFV: mean flow velocity; Mov. exe.: movement execution; n.s.: not significant; SOC: Stockings of Cambridge; WCST: Wisconsin Card Sorting Test